Tag: shelves | Apartment Therapy

Maximize Storage Space: The Undershelf Basket

While we don't believe that you have to run out to The Container Store every time you need a container for your belongings, sometimes the right product can be invaluable. For instance, when we're o...

The Beauty of Built-Ins

We've lived in a few big cities and one of the things we love about the often older apartments available are the built-in units. If you are lucky to have built-in units, consider making them over to m...

The Last Taboo: Tossing Books

We've been trying to clear out the books in our house; coincidentally we came across an article that asked, if you're not enjoying them, why finish the books you start. But of course! And then we st...

4 Tips To Eyecatching Bookshelves

You just hauled home a couple of the Billy shelves from Ikea and spent a challenging afternoon putting them together. Now what? Load it up with those cartons of books that have been stacked around y...

Try This: Mirror The Back Of Your Shelves

The other day, breakfasting at La Mill in Silverlake, we noticed this shelving across the room. Reflecting the light from the window, it caught our attention even on a gray day......

DIY Inspiration: The Coffee Light

Good ideas often pop up simultaneously in different places, thought up separately by different people (think Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace...though hardly anyone remember poor Alfred). We r...

Look! Store Your Books in the Rafters

We were charmed to the core over this ingenious book storage idea. Yes, these are just planks of painted plywood nailed to the supports for the loft above. They create perfect cubby spaces to stor...

Landing Strip Roundup
Hooks, Ideas, How-To's

This week in The Cure we're starting to filter out the outside world to keep it from invading our homes. One way we start this process is by adding an organized entryway or landing strip to our apart...

Small Space Storage Classic: Componibili from Kartell

Designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri nearly 40 years ago, the Componibili stacking system looks just as modern today as it did then. And because of its size plus the fact that it's made of plastic, it'...